Rorschach Brand Pure Water

Chapter 51 Rorschach Brand Pure Water

"Why don't you give it a try?" Ina was frustrated by the failed spell and looked Rorschach up and down. "You're still a low-level mage, right? You've worked hard to complete your task, so save your aether."

Team leader Nemo felt that Ina's words were too impulsive and wanted to take it back, but he didn't think Rorschach could succeed: "Mage Rorschach, you must have used up a lot of energy just participating in the construction of the landmark. Perhaps we will be activating the teleportation later, so it's better to conserve magic."

Rorschach discovered that some of his students were among the apprentices. Realizing his efforts had been met with indifference, he stopped wasting words and directly used [Rorschach's Water Creation Technique].

For some reason, in this subplane directly shrouded by transmutation dust, other mages could not sense the existence of the water elemental plane.

At this moment, Rorschach, who cannot sense the water element plane even in the main plane, needs to step forward and use "Magic Condensation" + "Water Element Conversion" to instantly unleash a large amount of clear and pure water.

"How did you do that?" Ina asked, surprised and indignant after failing more than ten times.

"Does everyone know how to use the [Fireball] spell?" Rorschach asked an unexpected question: "By manipulating and condensing the ether in the environment, converting it into fire element, you can create a fireball."

Ina understood Rorschach's words: "You mean to condense ether using the [Fireball] technique and then directly convert it into water element? Conversion is very difficult in the Prime Material Plane."

Nemo and François, who came over later, also realized: "But here, the ether concentration is extremely high, so conversion is possible." As they spoke, they began to try it themselves.

Unfortunately, knowing the theory doesn't guarantee you can learn it immediately, and Rorschach doesn't know how to make learning scrolls—being able to slowly demonstrate the fluctuations of spellcasting magic is itself a profound skill, and the scarcity of mages who master it is one of the reasons why learning scrolls are so expensive.

"Master Luo Xia, what do you imagine when you transform water element? A boundless ocean? Or a stream or a rushing river?" In the step of "elemental transformation," other mages who tried to follow the experience of the original [Water Creation Spell] undoubtedly failed.

In a conventional Water Creation spell, the caster doesn't produce water; they merely act as a transporter of water across the elemental planes. However, in the sub-planes, the water elemental plane is nowhere to be found.

"If we are calling for the search for the water elemental plane, perhaps we need to imagine a macroscopic body of water so that our inner ether can match it." Rorschach stood in the center of the crowd, and the other mages and apprentices consciously made way for him, surrounding him and staring intently at him.

"But for magical transformation elements, you must first conceive of pure, abstract water, and then imagine the process of it liquefying from water vapor and condensing into dew."

For Rorschach, he had a grasp of the abstract concept of water: both the microscopic atoms and their bonding within water molecules and the macroscopic basic physicochemical properties of water helped him guide the transformation of elements toward the pure element of water. He was also familiar with the diagrams and phase diagrams illustrating the transformation of water from a non-condensed to a condensed state.

"You can start by compressing the ether to generate water vapor instead of forcing the conversion into liquid water. When the water vapor we produce reaches a certain concentration, it will naturally liquefy."

Nemo and Ina succeeded first. They opened their arms to each other and guided the ether in the environment to gather between their palms. Then they clearly felt their palms become wet. They continued to increase the flux by maintaining the current flow of ether, and water actually gushed out.

"It's a success!" Ina was overjoyed, then a question popped into her head: "Mage Rorschach, this is your first time in a subplane, how did you find a way to create water through elemental transformation so quickly?"

"I studied this method in the original plane." Still unable to learn the original [Water Creation Technique], Rorschach found himself finding it extremely difficult to master space and summoning-related spells.

Here, Rorschach's version of the [Water Creation Technique] is much easier to perform. Rorschach guessed that the primary factor was, of course, the high concentration of environmental ether in this plane, and another factor was the extreme dryness of the environment—there was no wind or strong sunlight, and his lips were already dry.

In other words, when one side has a high concentration and the other almost none, ether might have a tendency to spontaneously transform into water. Why doesn't this happen on its own in this plane, requiring a mage to cast a spell?

To use an imperfect analogy: it's like a small ball on a slope, but between the ball and the downhill section, there's a small uphill section. The mage needs to use their magic to "lift the ball over the uphill section." Once the ball passes the highest point, it can roll down on its own—by crossing the energy barrier of elemental transformation, the ether will spontaneously begin to transform into water element. Then, the caster only needs to continue compressing the environmental ether to maintain the concentration gradient.

"You can perform such water elemental conversion in the prime plane?" Ina asked incredulously. Could a low-level mage really do that?

"Yes, based on [Fireball], my current most proficient spell." Rorschach raised his hands above his head, condensing a ball of pure water, just like with the Fireball spell, which flowed and grew continuously within the spherical area. Rorschach felt that condensing ether in this plane was very easy, and he hadn't consumed much of his intrinsic magic power yet.

The apprentices and onlookers gasped slightly as a huge water sphere, about five meters in diameter, floated above the boy's head and, guided steadily by him, drifted above the reservoir.

Splash! The water balloon collapsed and splashed into the pool, instantly filling the temporary reservoir to one-third full.

This somewhat theatrical performance earned cheers from the apprentices and workers: "Well done!" "The mage is amazing!" Nemo, the team leader, also shook Rorschach's hand: "Mage Rorschach, your ability to solve the water problem allows our mission to continue; you've been a great help!"

There are also mages who fail. François, for example, was unable to convert water and eventually shrugged and gave up: "To be honest, I've never been able to control the aether in the environment. This spell is really not suitable for me." Thinking of his exquisite manipulation of the [Activated Rope], Rorschach guessed that François might be good at enchanting and transmutation spells, mainly manipulating his own magic power.

Previous explorations were all short-term for archmages, but this operation is the first time that a mage has stayed in a sub-plane for an extended period of time, requiring the construction of permanent facilities that allow ordinary people to live there for a period of time as well.

"We've set up temporary tents, but we still need to build more sturdy houses." Nemo convened a meeting in the largest tent, the temporary command post, gathering the sorcerers and the best apprentices. "These are the blueprints for the construction area, and these are the original plans for the buildings. To expedite the construction and complete the task without heavy machinery, we spellcasters will work alongside the construction workers."

Nemo, the leader of the advance team, has now become the "contractor" of the first phase of the temporary base project, and dust is flying everywhere.

The spellcaster's construction plan is to first drive in wooden stakes, and then cast the spell "Earth Wall" at the location of the stakes to embed the stakes into the earth wall.

Rorschach continued using his powerful version of [Mage's Hand] to drive in the piles, while François cast [Earth Wall]. Having barely erected the foundation of a single-story hut, François frequently wiped the sweat from his brow: "No, this is too slow building!"

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